Weekend Update: Jamie Foxx Plays a Ding Dong

This segment, which featured Jamie Foxx as the Hostess cake known as the Ding Dong, probably would have been more successful a few weeks ago, when Hostess headlines were just about everywhere. But alas, that’s the price SNL pays for taking a brief hiatus. Still, this was successful — mostly thanks to Jamie Foxx’s ridiculous costume, his obvious enthusiasm, and the elaborate backstory the writers crafted for this character. The chocolate snack cake chatted with Seth Meyers — whom he asks to call him “Dong” — about being overshadowed by the Twinkie, racial snack profiling, and his blossoming rap career.